Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:43941B12.6080800
@zmsl.com:

> I understand that Microsoft /has/ used those methods. Though I've never 
> heard of the website one (I can't see how that one would work). But for 
> example, threatening to not advertise on magazines that had reviews of 
> Netscape (cutting off a significant source of revenue) or threatening 
> not to sell Windows to suppliers that sold competting OS's for the PC 
> platform. These are anti-trust violations, and they were found guilty.
> 

The website one is, I agree, difficult even to imagine, let alone to prove. 
As for the other crimes, they are, as you say, anti-trust violations. They 
were crimes, that should have been punished. But they are not the methods 
of organised crime, which involve violence, usually or often against family 
members as well as the perpetrator. 

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Andrew Brown
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